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The catastrophe that is unfolding in New Orleans and on the Gulf coast of Mississippi has been transformed into a national humiliation without parallel in the history of the United States....

The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....

Saving Social Security from privatization will be a major theme at Labor Day celebrations around the country, as members of Congress prepare to head back to Washington. Working people are determined to put Congress on notice that any proposal that undermines or privatizes Social Security is not acceptable and must be voted down. As was done in the 1930s to win Social Security and other social legislation, a massive outpouring can achieve not only protection of Social Security, but expansion o...

Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino is among the thousands unaccounted for in flooded New Orleans after rebuffing friends' pleas to flee as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city he celebrated in song, his manager said today....

While President Bush joked and strummed a guitar, Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to low-income African American communities in Mississippi and Louisiana. With state National Guard members dispatched to Iraq, much of the burden of reducing the human misery will fall upon relief agencies, most prominently the American Red Cross. Unfortunately, as San Franciscans learned after the 1989 earthquake, the Red Cross feels no obligation to spend money raised from a particular tragedy for the pu...

WASHINGTON -- It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans....

"Western Decadence" a relief benefit will be hosted on Labor Day, Mon. Sept. 5, from 3-7pm at The Edge bar in the Castro....

this was written by the fare strike folks, who are apparently separate from the social strike people...

How New Orleans Was Lost by Paul Craig Roberts Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting....

The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote three years ago, "It's only a matter of time before south Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day." We look at the lack of infrastructure preparedness in the Big Easy....